Jewelry isn't the only place to find citrine, tourmaline or onyx this spring. Jewelry designer (and certified gemologist) KARA ROSS uses semiprecious stones to punctuate candy-colored lizard and alligator clutches.

Ross, a former staffer at Harper's Bazaar, founded her jewelry collection in 2002, and launched the exotic-skin bag collection just last fall. Designed with a jeweler's eye, each bag is hand-stitched, each bauble hand-cut. Find the collection, priced $2,000 to $5,000, at Neiman Marcus downtown.

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